the concept of the quran miraculousness had undergone several stages before getting to its pinnacle in the fourth century. in the first stage – which took place during the first and second centuries – it cab be witnessed that the lecturers and scholars of the era have confessed their incompetence to compete with the quran, and the scholars and exegetes have left untouched the miracle-related is...

T Ferdous al-Hekma (Paradise of Wisdom) is one of the oldest medical texts in the Islamic world written in Arabic in 850 AD by Ali ibn Raban Tabari. He was a Persian physician who moved from Tabaristan (Mazandaran province of modern day Iran) to Samarra during the reign of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil (847-861 AD). We studied the book of Ferdous al-Hekma fil-Tibb, in an attempt to comprehen...

ferdous al-hekma book is one of the traditional medicine resources in the islamic civi-lization legacy. ali ibn rabn tabari, its author, has lived in the third century ah. his-torians disagree on the author’s correct name, but the name of ali ibn rabn tabari is of the most interest to them. this name seems more correctly because rabn means “our teacher” in judaism and the author of the book was...

t ferdous al-hekma (paradise of wisdom) is one of the oldest medical texts in the islamic world written in arabic in 850 ad by ali ibn raban tabari. he was a persian physician who moved from tabaristan (mazandaran province of modern day iran) to samarra during the reign of the abbasid caliph al-mutawakkil (847-861 ad). we studied the book of ferdous al-hekma fil-tibb, in an attempt to comprehen...

ali-ibn-e-abbas-al-majusi, well known as haly abbas in the west, a physician, surgeon and psychologist of buyid dynasty era, lived in the 10th century (a.d). he, along with tabari, razi, avicienna, and jorjani, established the foundation of islamic medicine. he authored “kamilu sina’at” or “al-kitab al-maliki” (the royal book), a book on medicine which was used in european universities until th...

Low back pain and sciatica have been considered as the common morbidities of human kind throughout the history. The explanation of the etiology has been changed during the centuries and still remains a dilemma. Reviewing ancient theories may lead to novel findings about the etiology and its better treatments. First writings about sciatica: among available iranian traditional medicine (ITM) book...

BACKGROUND Melancholia is a kind of depression with the most common symptoms of evident mental disorder, slimness, lack of enjoyment, feeling guilty and having no appetite. In modern medicine, the word "melancholia" only refers to mental and affective symptoms of depression. However, historically, it could have physical symptoms as well as mental symptoms and the atrabilious situations were cat...

Ibn Sina (980-1037 AD), known by his full name Abu Ali al-Hussain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina and the Latin name 'Avicenna', was a Persian scholar who is primarily remembered for his contributions to the science of medicine. He authored Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine). Sections of his work are devoted to detailed descriptions of a number of infectious illnesses, particularly rabies. Avice...

Renal Stone is one of the fairly common diseases in all over the world. According to statistics , its prevalence in America is between 10 to 15% (1). Iran and its neighbors such as Turkey and Pakistan locate on stone-making region. The exact prevalence and incidence rates of urinary calculi in Iran are not clear (2). Since a) mortality rate in this disease is not high, b) there is no longer tim...